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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Rudyard Kipling - (1865-1936)

An interessting fact about the 'cure' .
". The bone transplant came from a man who was immune to HIV, which scientists say about 1 percent of Caucasians are. "....So the hopes are to harvest bone marrow from about 1 percent of the population...Perhaps those who own said bones should have a say or are we going to hold them in isolation and 'breed' them to produce more Aid immune bone material ?
.....Where Does HIV Hide?

In summary, there is good news and bad news. It is not possible to achieve eradication of HIV disease. Cellular reservoirs are seeded with HIV during the early stages of infection, when viral replication is unsuppressed.

Once successful viral suppression is accomplished, the fact that the reservoirs appear to be frozen in time would appear to suggest that the seeding of reservoirs stops. These findings underscore the importance of maintaining total viral suppression, to avoid infection of resting CD4+ cells with a population of resistant viruses.

It is crucial to understand the pathogenesis of HIV disease in children before recommending structured treatment interruptions after successful viral suppression has been achieved.

http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/416570
..............................Can a Bone-Marrow Transplant Halt HIV?
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a pathogen so wily and protean that researchers rarely talk about curing infected patients, focusing instead on treatment and prevention. But in an announcement that caused a flutter of excitement and a wave of prudent skepticism, Berlin-based hematologist Gero Huetter claimed on Thursday that he has cured an HIV infection in a 42-year-old man through a bone-marrow transplant.
snipIs this a viable cure for HIV? Not by a long shot.
Even Huetter says bone-marrow transplants, which kill about a third of patients, are so dangerous that "they can't be justified ethically" in anything other than desperate situations like late-stage leukemia. Nor is it clear that Huetter's claim to have cured his patient is yet justified. HIV has a frustrating ability to hide in hard-to-detect "reservoir" cells in various parts of the body. Current antiviral drugs, for example, can lower a patient's "viral load" to the point that HIV is undetectable in his or her bloodstream. But as soon as such patients are taken off antivirals, the virus comes storming back.

I lost a friend to HIV from a blood transfusion. He was the first high school student in IL with HIV to attend a public school, this was in the 80's. He held on many years but he was such a nice kid. RIP Jeff...

I lost a friend to HIV from a blood transfusion. He was the first high school student in IL with HIV to attend a public school, this was in the 80's. He held on many years but he was such a nice kid. RIP Jeff...

Once infected it never stops.The Aids Chemotherapy only holds it back but doesn't actually kills it,If the drugs stop the virus comes back stronger than ever...